Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

It also gives me the opportunity to remind him of the various cost-of-living measures that he and his colleagues voted against. It gives me the opportunity to remind him that they were going to go to an election because they so opposed the revamp of the stage 3 tax cuts. They didn't want all Australians to get a tax cut. It gives me the opportunity to remind him that, under the government of which he was a part, low wages were a deliberate design feature of the Australian economy.

I would say to the Leader of the Opposition: if you truly are interested in looking at Australian's cost of living, if you're truly interested in backing in support for Australians in the time of rising costs of living, do you know what you could do? You could stop doing what Mr Dutton tells you to do. That's what you could do. You could stop doing what he tells you to do—